EXTRACT O F Mifs MARY GILBERT's JOURN A L. Immodicis brevis eft Etas, & rara Voluptas: Mart. TO THE READER. I. AMONG the innumerable Novelties which have appeared in the World, within half a Century, I do not remember to have seen the Experience of a Child written by herself. Herein much Variety is not to be expected, nor any Art or Ornament at all: As she set down from time to time, merely for her own Ufe, juft what occurred between GOD and her own Soul. But on this very Account, Perfons of Understanding will fet the greater Value upon it: because it contains only genuin Christian Experience, painted in its native Colours. 2. THE Reflections occafionally interfperfed, are always juft, frequently strong and affecting: particularly thofe on Death, or the Shortness of Life, especially from the Mouth of a Child. And the Language wherein they are expreffed, altho' |